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Stepping out in style
Many of the decorations used during the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, were produced using EskoArtwork's Kongsberg i-XL die-less cutting and creasing table. At the Neighborhood Ball, for example, President and Mrs Obama had their first dance on a custom-built circular stage with a faux finish design cut using the Kongsberg equipment.
Special events contractor, Hargrove, supplied services for the inauguration ceremonies, which included ten balls, three dinners, seven floats with 44 separate jobs in 34 different venues over six days. Most of the decorations were printed on a Vutek QS3200 large format printer and cut on an EskoArtwork Kongsberg i-XL.
Hargrove was able to fabricate some unusual components such as a 10,000-square-foot floor for the performers at the Lincoln Memorial as well as 22 foot high faux walls used to hide scaffolding, and a wooden, three-dimensional seal 16 feet in diameter.
Director of production at Hargrove, Fred Strickland, said: "The EskoArtwork Kongsberg i-XL with i-cut vision system saved the day. It allowed us to cut all of the items we printed without any effort at all."
